11-letter words containing d, r, o, p
- pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perchloride — the chloride of any particular element or group with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- perduellion — high treason
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- period pain — Period pain is the pain that some women have when they have a monthly period.
- periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- periodontia — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petrodollar — profits made from oil exports
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- photoperiod — the interval in a 24-hour period during which a plant or animal is exposed to light.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pigeon drop — a confidence game or sleight-of-hand swindle whereby cash is extracted from the victim as collateral for a supposed share in a large sum of discovered money, dishonest profits, or gambling winnings, which in fact are nonexistent.
- pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
- piping cord — Cord that is covered in fabric and used to decorate a seam
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pocket door — a door, usually one of a communicating pair, that slides into and out of a recess in a doorway wall.
- podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polyhydroxy — containing two or more hydroxyl groups.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- ponderation — a weight
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- post-modern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
- postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.